Strengthening Youth Capacity for Conflict Management and Peace Building

1. “Strengthening Youth Capacity for Conflict Management and Peace Building” Tbilisi – Yerevan – Belgrade 2017 – 2018

‘SCOPE’
Capacity Building Project
“STRENGTHENING YOUTH CAPACITY
FOR CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND
PEACE BUILDING”
TBILISI – YEREVAN – BELGRADE
2017 – 2018

2. Diapositiva 2

Partner countries:
Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania,
Macedonia,
Poland,
Serbia,
Russian
Federation, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.
Four interconnected phases:
Preparation meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, June
– 3 working days
Training Course for Youth Workers in
Yerevan, Armenia, August – 7 working days
Local initiatives in participating countries,
September – November
Evaluation Seminar in Belgrade, Serbia,
November – 5 working days

3. non-violent approach, peace-building and promotion of human rights

NON-VIOLENT APPROACH, PEACE-BUILDING AND
PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
THREATS
extremist movements
internal and
international conflicts
‘frozen’ conflicts
refugee crisis
REACTION
gather youth workers
and activists
common unity factors
non-violent
communication
conflict management
and transformation
youth participation

4. Objectives of the Capacity Building:

OBJECTIVES OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING:
Awareness → concepts and beliefs about conflict and
the ways to react to it; risk factors under which conflicts
tend to arise;
Methods → to prevent and/or transform conflict through
non-violent communication;
Knowledge on key concepts → conflict management,
transformation, resolution, inner belief systems and nonviolent communication;
Tools → non-violent communication and conflict
transformation;
Best practices → youth work and conflict, inter-religious
and cultural dialogue;
Competence → needed for using different tools to
develop dialogue;
Networking between participants → develop new
projects dealing with conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

5. Aims of the Preparation Meeting in Georgia :

AIMS
OF THE
PREPARATION MEETING
IN
GEORGIA :
to develop a time-line of the projects’ activities and
include the needs of the participating youth workers in
the training curriculum (Activity 2);
to list and agree on the topics to be covered during the
project taking into account the needs;
to discuss the methods of training and of evaluation to
be used for each topic (according to main objectives);
to discuss logistics and special needs of the
participants;
to exchange experience with the Georgian partner in
the field of conflict simulation games and trainings on
conflict resolution and peace building;
to define a clear strategy for dissemination and
outreach for youth work sector (especially for Local
Activities), reaching beyond our own organisations on
national and European levels.

6. Aims of the Training Course in Armenia :

AIMS
OF THE
TRAINING COURSE
IN
ARMENIA :
develop awareness about personal concepts and
believes one has about conflict and habitual ways to
react to the conflict;
raise awareness of risk factors under which conflicts
tend to arise;
identify effective methods that help to prevent and/or
transform conflict through fostering non-violent
communication;
gain knowledge on key concepts, such as conflict
management, conflict transformation, conflict resolution,
inner belief systems and non-violent communication;
gain tools for non-violent communication and conflict
transformation.

7. Aims of the Local Activities:

AIMS
OF THE
LOCAL ACTIVITIES:
to transfer the knowledge gained during the project
through smaller scale projects to the community;
to encourage young people affected by the conflicts to
undertake own initiatives and measures in order to
influence and solve the conflicts of different type and
scale;
to apply the methods that were learned during the
training with smaller groups of young people;
to raise awareness and knowledge of local youth on
the topics of conflict management and peace building; to
discuss which and how conflicts impact their
communities.

8. Aims of the Evaluation Seminar in Serbia:

AIMS
OF THE
EVALUATION SEMINAR
IN
SERBIA:
evaluate the individual learning process of the participants
and have a look on the process of their self-empowerment and
self-efficiency in dealing with conflict management;
evaluate and reflect on the knowledge, skills and attitudes
gained within the Capacity Building Project;
evaluate Local Activities in participating countries and
present the project implemented through a dissemination
event;
exchange best practices in relation to youth work and
conflict, inter-religious and cultural dialogue and learn about
the experience in Balkan countries;
help participants reflect on the competence needed for using
different tools to develop dialogue;
facilitate networking between participants and develop new
projects dealing with conflict resolution and peace-building.